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Human selves are fascinating, and not nearly enough is known about them.

Therefore, I am on a mission to collect and freely distribute 1 million human identity observations.

This website - Ipseity Daily - documents the progress.

About the creator

Dr. Jason Jeffrey Jones is a computational social scientist whose expertise includes online experiments, social networks, high-throughput text analysis and machine learning. He is interested in humans' perceptions of themselves and the developing role of artificial intelligence in society.

Dr. Jones' research is published in numerous peer-reviewed journals and has been cited thousands of times. His work has been discussed in the New York Times, The Atlantic and the Washington Post.

Learn more about his methods and results in the book Ipseology - A new science of the self.

About the funder

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Funding for Ipseity Daily is provided by Jason Jeffrey Jones Productions.

Jason Jeffrey Jones Productions sponsors and publishes rigorous, replicable computational social science research
(and also alternate history football fan fiction).

Other sponsored projects include the Public Opinion on Artificial Intelligence Daily Dashboard.

Frequently Asked Questions

What counts as an observation? How close are you to the goal of one million?

An observation is a "Yes" or "No" response to a question like "Does science nerd describe you today?"

When one person taking a survey answers that question for one signifier, that counts as one observation.

I started collecting data on 2025-07-08. As of 2025-08-27, the current data contains 80,854 observations. So I am 8.09% of the way to 1,000,000!

Will you add my favorite signifier?

Probably.

To suggest a signifier, send it to Dr. Jason Jeffrey Jones, and I might choose to add the term to Ipseity Daily.

To guarantee a signifier is added, you can sponsor 1,000 observations for $100. The signifier of your choice will be fielded for at least 50 days to at least 20 survey participants per day. Contact Dr. Jason Jeffrey Jones for more information.

Will you share your data?

Of course, yes.

Open data is a built-in feature of Social Science Dashboard Inators like this one.

For all Ipseity Daily data, visit the Download page or the OSF.io repository.